Moonlight

I have wanted to see Moonlight since it opened, and yet each time I was about to go there was … something. A change in plans, illness, or just something inside that said, not now. Perhaps it was because I was knee-deep in the novella, trying to keep my head in that space … but that was no longer the situation on Thursday, and everything in me said yes.

This movie. It broke my heart in so many ways—with its story, with its people, with its languages, with its music and light and color and. An...